Tetramorium pleganon
Bolton, 1979
valid
Tetramorium pleganon
Bolton, 1979:
146 (w.)
MADAGASCAR.
Malagasy.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Madagascar: 84 km. SW Sambava on road to Andapa, 70-160 m., 17.ii.1977, degraded forest, AB 43, strays on path (W.L. & D.E. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0280587.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 412; Hita Garcia & Fisher, 2012b: 53 (redescription).
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1979. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Malagasy region and in the New World. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 38:129-181. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Hita Garcia, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2012b. The ant genus Tetramorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Malagasy region—taxonomic revision of the T. kelleri and T. tortuosum species groups. Zootaxa 3592:1-85. PDF